Isaiah 58:5-10

Isaiah 58:5-10New International Version (NIV)

5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,only a day for people to humble themselves?Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reedand for lying in sackcloth and ashes?Is that what you call a fast,a day acceptable to the Lord?

6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:to loose the chains of injusticeand untie the cords of the yoke,to set the oppressed freeand break every yoke?7 Is it not to share your food with the hungryand to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them,and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,and your healing will quickly appear;then your righteousness[a] will go before you,and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,with the pointing finger and malicious talk,10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungryand satisfy the needs of the oppressed,then your light will rise in the darkness,and your night will become like the noonday.

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